Research Group: English Studies: Literature (RG 1)
Profissional Title: Assistant Professor
Academic Degrees: PhD
Institutional Address: Av. Berna, nº 26-C 1069-061 LISBOA
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Research Projects:

• (2009-...). Narrative and Medicine: (con)texts and practices across disciplines, (Scient. Coord. IFernandes - CEAUL/ULICES). Researcher.

Research Outputs

Publications in (inter)national peer-reviewed journals :

• (2014). “From Modernity to Post-modernity: conflicting voices in literary discourse - A corpus analysis of you and one” em co-autoria com Alcina de Sousa, Topics in Linguistics, 13.1.
• (2012). “Self-representations in regional short fiction: the modern aesthetichs of loss and change in Thomas Hardy and Fialho de Almeida”, JoLIE 5, 45-58.
• (2012). “Body and transcendence in Virginia Woolf and Clarice Lispector.” E-scrita - Revista do curso de Letras da Uniabeu, 3.3B.
• (2010). “Representações Literárias da Imagem da Felicidade.” A Felicidade | Próximo Futuro. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
• (2008). “Imagens do Corpo no Conto de Clarice Lispector.” Forma Breve 6, 169-178.

Supervision

Completed PhD theses:

• (2010). Supervision of Zuzanna Iwona Zarebska Sanches, "The Counter-Discourses of Femininity" (Co-supervisor: LFlora, U Lisboa), U Lisboa (Ph.D. in Literary Studies - English Literature). Summa cum Laude. 29 Oct.

Further supervision:

• (2010). Supervision of Carla Maria Águas de Almeida, "Tradução e Análise do Humor em “Jeeves Takes Charge” de P.G. Wodehouse," U Nova Lisboa (M.A. in Translation). Final Mark: 15/20. 26 Jul.

Conference proceedings:

• (2013). “Narrating to improve, narrating to survive” in Storytelling: exploring the art and science of narrative, ed. Sara Shafer, Interdisciplinary Press, 135-143. EBook.
• (2009). “Fronteiras Regionalistas – uma Reflexão sobre Literatura Comparada.” Actas do 6.º Congresso Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada/10.º Colóquio de Outono Comemorativo das Vanguardas. U Minho, Braga.
• (2009). “The Visual Image in Epiphanic Short Story.” In Gilda Socarrás (Ed.) Philological Explorations: Proceedings of the 2^nd Annual International Conference on Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Athens, 273-279.

Books, including single-authored works (including scholarly editions of oral or written texts and translations with introduction and commentary):

• (2011). (Co-ed.) A Arte da Cultura: Homenagem a Yvette Centeno. Lisboa: Colibri.

Chapters in books, including contributions to conference proceedings, essays in collections:

• (2013). “Regionalism in the Portuguese Short Story.” In CVFerreira et al. (Eds.) A scholar for all seasons: Homenagem a João de Almeida Flor. Lisboa: CEAUL/DEA/FLUL, 103-116.
• (2011). “‘Philosophy in the flesh’: being human with Clarice Lispector.” In Fernando Clara et al. (Eds.) Várias Viagens – Estudos oferecidos a Alfred Opitz. V. N. Famalicão: Húmus, 187-94.
  

Organisation of scientific dissemination activities:

• (2008). Co-org. Conf. A Arte da Cultura – Silêncios, Símbolos, Máscaras:
  A Tribute to Professor Yvette Centeno, U Nova Lisboa, 19-21 Nov.
• (2008). Org. Committee Int. Conf. From Brazil to Macao – Travel Writing and Diasporic Spaces, CEAUL/ULICES, U Lisboa, 10-14 Sep.

Other activities

Presentations in international conferences

Poster:

• (2014). “Illness and creative work in Virginia Woolf” (no âmbito do Projecto Interdisciplinar Narrativa e Medicina). Colóquio Narrative Matters, Paris, 23-27 Jun.
• (2012). “Narrating to improve, narrating to survive.” 3^rd Global Conference on Storytelling (3), Salzburg, Austria, 4-6 Nov.
• (2012). “Regional dissonance: landscape in the short story cycle.” Conf. Cycles, Recueils, Macrotexts: Theorizing the Short Story Collection, Leuven Catholic U, Belgium, 22-24 May.
• (2012). “Weapons, bandoleros, smugglers and robbers. Spanish horrors and the hybrid genesis of the short story in Washington Irving’s The Alhambra.” Conf. Southern Horrors. The Dark Side of the Mediterranean World Seen from Northern Europe and America, 1453-1939, Nice, France, 19-21 Apr.
• (2011). “Self comes to mind” – interactions between science and culture.” Conf. Les Cultures des Sciences en Europe – Dispositifs, Publics, Acteurs et Institutions, Strasbourg, France, 13-14 Oct.
• (2011). “From Modernity to Post-modernity: conflicting voices in literary discourse - A corpus analysis of you and one” (Co-auth: AMPSousa). Congreso Int. de Lingüística de Corpus – CILC 2011, Valência, Spain, 7-9 Apr.
• (2010). “Othering the self: regional character and European identity.” European Identities Conference - Europe in its own eyes/Europe in the eyes of the other, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 1-3 Oct.
• (2010). "‘Philosophy in the flesh’: being human with Clarice Lispector." Midwest Conference on Language Literature and Media, Northern Illinois U, DeKalb, USA, 9-10 Apr.
• (2009). "Between Discoveries: Brazil, Europe, Being Human." 5^th International and Interdisciplinary Alexander von Humboldt Conference on Travels between Europe and the Americas, Berlin, 27-31 Jul.
• (2008). “The Visual Image in Epiphanic Short Story.” Int. Conf. on Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Athens, Greece, 28-31 Jul.

Presentations in national conferences

Poster:

• (2013). “Illness as journey: narrative medicine in the patient quest”. Colóquio De Idas e Regressos: Declinações da Viagem, Faculdade de Letras, U Porto, ” 28-30 Nov.
• (2013). “Paisagens Narrativas.” Int. Conf. Arts and Sciences in Dialogue, U Algarve, Faro, 17-18 Jan.
• (2012). “Crossways in ‘Hard Sciences and Humanities’.” Int. APLC Conf. Pensar o Comparatismo – percursos, impasses perspectivas, U Aveiro, 5-7 Dec.
• (2010). “Representações Literárias da Imagem da Felicidade.” Workshop Próximo Futuro on “A Felicidade,” Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 4-5 Nov.
• (2010). “Othering the self: regional character and European identity.” Int. Conf. European Identities Conference - Europe in its own eyes/Europe in the eyes of the other, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 1-3 Oct.
• (2008). “Fronteiras Regionalistas – uma Reflexão sobre Literatura Comparada.” 6.º Congresso Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada/10.º Colóquio de Outono Comemorativo das Vanguardas, Braga, 6-8 Nov.
• (2008). "Travelling in the Short Story – Sketching, Reporting and Storytelling.” Int. Conf. From Brazil to Macao – Travel Writing and Diasporic Spaces, U Lisboa, 10-14 Sep.

Future Research:

• (Forthcoming). “Travelling in the Short Story – Sketching, Reporting and Storytelling.” In Luísa Flora et al. (Eds.) Actas do Congresso Internacional Do Brasil a Macau – Narrativas de Viagens e Espaços de Diáspora, Lisboa: CEAUL/Edições Colibri.
• (Forthcoming). “Narrating to improve, narrating to survive.” E-book based on Int. Conf. Third Global Conference on Storytelling (3), Austria, 4-6 Nov.

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